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B. M. HOBLICK PACKING PAD Filed May 15, 1926 afNJAM/N M. Vogue/ 1 amg Patented Aug. 28, 1928.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT, OFFICE.

BENJAMIN M. HOBLICK, 0F FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR'TO BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

PACKING PAD. l

Application led May 15,

This invention relates to pads as used for packing purposes in shipment of certain classes of commodities, particularly perishable food products such as fruits and eggs having a high liquid content and easily injured in transportation. j Y

The objects of the invention are to provide a cushion shipping pad of cheap portable construction which will effectively protect the shipment with which it is used, also such a pad which will absorb any liquid which may exude from the shipment, and also which will insure ventilation of the product during shipment.

In the drawings accompanying this application I show one form of my invention tho it is to be understood that modifications thereof may be made within the scope of the 1nvention and appended claims.

The drawings show in Figure l a perspective view of one of my improved pads, Figure 2 in perspective, the under side of the pad of Figure 1, Figure 3 an enlarged substantially full size fragmentary section of my pad, and `in Figure 4 a strand of the packing material substantially full size.

In lfurther detail the pad comprises a sheet of paper 1 perforated at 2 andl with its margins 3 folded over to form retaining edges for the packing material 4. This packing material is preferably strips or shreds of cheap grade of tissue paper all rumpled up so as to bulk to maximum, and it is arranged evenly upon the perforated sheet 1 to any depth desired, usually about as shown in Figure 3, and retained in place by several tapes or bands 5 extended either under the margin 3 as dotted at 5', or over the margin to the underside of the ad as indicated at 5" and the ends gummed in place.

In forming the erforations 2 in the paper ,sheet 1 I prefera ly punch them from one side without cutting out their disks so that the edges of paper around each hole will extend r outwardly of the finished pad as shown at 2 in Figure 3 as this greatly assists the ventilation by holdin the sheet more or less spaced from the boar s or slots of the shipping box 1926. Serial No, 109,237.

or crate in which the pad is used, thus pro.v viding more or less broken channels for circulation of air.

In use the shipping box is lined with the pads, .or one placed top and bottom of the food product with perforated paper side against the box, and the product placed on or between the rumpled tissue padding.

This pad formed by rumpled tissue strips .has `been found very eective in protecting such shipments of such products as grapes and other fresh juicy fruit, for the highly absorbent nature of the tissue combined with the ventilating feature effectively prevents molding through juicy exudations, and the tissue is free from ne particles likely to adhere to the'product to cause annoyance to the consumer.

It is of course understood that the thickness or size of the pad maybe varied to suit the particular use to which it is put.

I claim:

1. As an article of manufacture, a portable packing pad adapted to be placed in a fruit shipping box, said pad comprising a'sheet of paper with its margins turned over to form a retaining lip extending entirely around the edge of the pad, a layer of rumpled tissue paper -shreds in pad formation arranged on the sheet and retained at the edges of the pad by said lip, a relatively narrow tape passing over the paper shreds and secured at its ends to the sheet, and with said shreds freely exposed between the tape and said lip.

2. As an article of manufacture, a portable packing pad, composed of rumpled vtissue paper strips held in pad formation by means of a sheet of perforated paper on one side;

said perforations being punched to break the BENJAMIN M. HoBLTcK. 

